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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 6
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Jerusalem shall be destroyed because of her iniquity—She shall be overrun by a great and cruel nation.
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O ye</span> children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 1: 14; Jer. 4: 6; Jer. 10: 22.">north</a>, and great destruction.
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I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate <i>woman.</i>
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The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch <i>their</i> tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
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Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.  Woe unto us!  for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
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Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
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&#182; For thus hath the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 4: 2.">mount</a> against Jerusalem: this <i>is</i> the city to be <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/6/6b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR punished.">visited</a>; she <i>is</i> wholly oppression in the midst of her.
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As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Wickedness.">wickedness</a>: <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/6/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 20: 8.">violence</a> and spoil is heard in her; before me continually <i>is</i> grief and wounds.
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Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
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&#182; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, They shall <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR thoroughly.">throughly</a> glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/6/9b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR unto the new branches.">into</a> the baskets.
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To whom shall I speak, and give <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Warnings.">warning</a>, that they may hear?  behold, their ear <i>is</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/6/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Acts 7: 51.">uncircumcised</a>, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
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Therefore I am full of the fury of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with <i>him that is</i> full of days.
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And their houses shall be turned unto others, <i>with their</i> fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one <i>is</i> given to <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Covetousness.">covetousness</a>; and from the prophet even unto the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/6/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Priestcraft.">priest</a> every one dealeth falsely.
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They have healed also the hurt <i>of the daughter</i> of my people slightly, saying, <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Peace.">Peace</a>, peace; when <i>there is</i> no peace.
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Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?  nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time <i>that</i> I <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR punish.">visit</a> them they shall be cast down, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 18: 15.">paths</a>, where <i>is</i> the good way, and <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/6/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walk</a> therein, and ye shall find <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/6/16c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Rest.">rest</a> for your souls.  But they said, We will not walk <i>therein.</i>
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Also I set <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Watchmen.">watchmen</a> over you, <i>saying,</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/6/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Obedience.">Hearken</a> to the sound of the trumpet.  But they said, We will not hearken.
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&#182; Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what <i>is</i> among them.
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Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/19a" mark="a" type="F" title="OR calamity; TG Evil.">evil</a> upon this people, <i>even</i> the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/6/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 1: 31.">fruit</a> of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
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To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country?  your burnt offerings <i>are</i> not <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hypocrisy.">acceptable</a>, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
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Therefore thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Behold, I will lay <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 3: 20; Mosiah 7: 29.">stumblingblocks</a> before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Behold, a people cometh from the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 28: 49; Jer. 50: 41 (41-43).">north</a> country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
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They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they <i>are</i> cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
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We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, <i>and</i> pain, as of a woman in travail.
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Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy <i>and</i> fear <i>is</i> on every side.
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&#182; O daughter of my people, gird <i>thee</i> with <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apparel.">sackcloth</a>, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, <i>as for</i> an <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/6/26b" mark="b" type="A" title="Amos 8: 10.">only</a> son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
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I have set thee <i>for</i> a tower <i>and</i> a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
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They <i>are</i> all grievous revolters, walking with <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/28a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Slander.">slanders</a>: <i>they are</i> brass and iron; they <i>are</i> all corrupters.
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The bellows <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/6/29a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR blew the fire.">are</a> burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/6/29b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR the smelting is in vain.">the</a> founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
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Reprobate silver shall <i>men</i> call them, because the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath rejected them.
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